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4 comments:
Huzzah young man!
Woot!
Thing is...
This year, they put him in a gifted class - combined 4th and 5th graders (he's in the 4th grade) - and he didn't make honor roll for the first time in his first quarter because he got his first C ever.
And let me tell you this child was upset! So, this was something he was determined to beat. Every grade came up. Every study skill rating came up. Every behavior rating came up.
I can't tell you how proud I am! I told him that this meant more than last year's honor rolls, because he had to work hard for it after the others came so easily to him. I'm just blown away!
I'm all teary-eyed just bragging about it!
Aaaww...
Congrats kid!
This is a copy of a reply I put on the previous post about making the honor roll:
Hey, young man:
I know you might hear from kids at school that it's no big deal, or you might see kids acting like it's not cool to be smart in school.
Well, listen. I'm a public high school teacher. I'm also a professor. I have seen thousands of students in my time (my God I'm old). Making the Honor Roll -is- a big deal. Not everyone can do it. It's not as flashy as scoring 81 points in a basketball game or having all kinds of girls call you up on the phone (am I too early for that?) but it is still an honor. You and Mom and Dad should be proud. I don't know you, never met you, but if you'll allow some old guy to give you a piece of advice, it'd be this:
Enjoy this. Celebrate it. Be glad of your smarts and hard work. Don't let people tell you it's dorky or anything. You have yourself an award there, maybe a certificate, and you should indeed take it to your room and just sort of stare at it. And you should smile when you do.
Congratulations, Caedyn.
--Some Old Guy
And to Mom and Dad...we do all kinds of studies to try and figure out why some kids are successful in school and why some aren't. We always come back to the same single factor. It's not race, it's not socioeconomics, it's not even raw talent.
It's parental involvement. Every time. Studies vary in their conclusions on other factors, but the one constant that keeps coming back is that. When parents are involved in their child's education, the child does better. Period.
Congratulations to you two as well.
--Sean
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